Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was followed by a skillful printed press handout from the Chancellery in which Herr Hitler, purporting to make public a letter from himself to Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick, sought to disarm criticism of his coup by a blend of adulation for the dead, professed self-modesty and popular appeal. Full text...
...insisted that as a "safeguard" Lieut. General Werner von Blomberg, an aristocratic brother officer in whom he had utmost confidence, be made Defense Minister. Last week the Army's attitude depended on General von Blomberg, custodian of the military heritage of Feldmarschall von Hindenburg. Would he stand for the coup...
Advertising 50 years ago was described by Earnest Elmo Calkins, who related how agencies bought space in newspapers as cheaply as possible, then scurried around for advertisers to whom to sell it as high as possible. J. Walter Thompson scored a coup by cornering so much newspaper space that other agents had to buy from...
PLAN XVI&151;Douglas G. Browne&151;Crime Club ($2). Planned in war, the terrorism of three super-criminals breaks out 16 years later. Their final coup of piracy brings Navy, Scotland Yard and Journalism to the Empire's rescue and Inspector Thew's promotion...
...Chancellor Hitler he was and is the champion of the career Reichswehr generals and President von Hindenburg. The nefarious plotters, he said, included onetime Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher, Reichswehr careerist par excellence, Captain Roehm and "a foreign diplomat." Simple Storm Troopers, declared the Chancellor, knew nothing of this plotted coup against the Reichswehr. They naively supposed that what was wanted was a "new and in this case a bloody uprising?'The Night of the Long Knives'?as it was gruesomely described...